Little Boy - Fat Man

Six decades is a long time. But when the scar is as deep as the one caused by nuclear-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no amount of time is long enough to heal the scars. In the past few days the 60th anniversary of b-bombings (6th Aug Hiroshima and 9th Aug Nagasaki) were observed, with world leaders reaffirming their pledge of a nuclear weapon free earth. But six decades on where are we headed?

6th Aug 1945, 8:15am, Little Boy the Uranium bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by Enola Gay the B-29 bomber. About 40,000 died instantly, another 100,000 had died by end of 1945. The count today is 242,437 dead, and unnumbered injured or deformed for life.

9th Aug 1945, 11:02am, Fat Man nicknamed after Winston Churchill, the plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by Bock's Car the bomber. Total estimated dead are 240,000.

Apart from the five permanent members of the UN Security council, who posses Nuclear arsenal, India and Pakistan have shown their capability of making a N-Bomb. Israel, Iran and North Korea allegedly have the capability of making Nuclear Weapons. In the days leading up to the anniversary, negotiators from the US, Japan, China, Russia and South Korea were fighting a losing battle to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programme, and Iran has rejected the EU's proposal for ending the stand-off over its own nuclear programme. While every Nuclear country reaffirms that their Nuclear capability is for peaceful purposes and will only be used for generating energy, who can guarantee that with the existence of Nuclear Weapons on Earth, there will never be another Hiroshima or Nagasaki!

At the ceremony at Nagasaki Memorial, Fumie Sakamoto, a 74-year-old woman representing the survivors, recalled being thrown into the air at her home and coming to in her garden 10 metres away. "As far as I could see, everything had been reduced to rubble," she said. "Together with some 260,000 A-bomb survivors ... I swear in the presence of the souls of the victims of the atomic bombing to continue to tirelessly demand that Nagasaki be the last A-bomb site." Let us say Amen to that.